Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755365AbYGaTlq (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:41:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755508AbYGaTlV (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:41:21 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:49792 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755365AbYGaTlU (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:41:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:48:50 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , stable@kernel.org, Chris Wright Subject: Re: [PATCH stable] ftrace document crucial update Message-ID: <20080731164850.GA10422@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1119 Lines: 27 On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:05:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > It has come to my attention that ftrace.txt was pulled into 2.6.26 > prematurely. That is Linus pulled it in before it was well tested. A > series of updates were made to it shortly afterward, but by then it was > too late. The release was out, and ftrace.txt was greatly inadequate. > > This patch is a sum of all the critical updates to keep ftrace.txt in a > stable state. I strongly urge the stable team to get this into 2.6.26.1. > Otherwise people may be greatly disappointed while reading ftrace.txt just > to realize that it is horribly out of date. > > Never mind that ftrace itself doesn't exist is 2.6.26. > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Then why don't I just delete the file from the 2.6.26 tree entirely? That would make more sense, right? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/